Cheney and Edwards: The Me 2 Campaign

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A1555-2004Aug14?language=printer

Dick Cheney and John Edwards have a few things in common: They are both running for vice president and they are both Homo sapiens.

But you would struggle to find two greater stylistic opposites in American politics.

Edwards is a populist outsider; Cheney is a capitalist insider.

Edwards, who is 51 but looks younger, is known for his oratorical flair and exuberance. Cheney, who is 63 but looks older, is known for his reticence and discretion. He takes as a mantra, "You never get in trouble for something you don't say." (A quote he attributes to former House speaker Sam Rayburn.) Edwards's wife, Elizabeth, calls her relentlessly sunny husband "the most optimistic person I know." Cheney once took a personality test that found him best-suited to a career as a funeral director.

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When a woman in Battle Creek handed Cheney her baby, he carried the kid for a few seconds and then handed him back, no kiss. In the next three minutes, he would quick-pinch about 100 more hands.

As he walked out a back door, the vice president vigorously rubbed his hands with sanitizing lotion provided by an aide.

[cynatnite]

1. He'd make an excellent funeral director n/t

[Syrinx]

2. excellent article

Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

How anyone could vote for the spoiled rich kid and the funeral director is beyond by comprehension.

[BayouBengal07]

3. This is gold

The iconic town meeting provides a forum for citizens to engage community leaders in a vigorous exchange of concerns. The election town meeting provides true believers the chance to ask softball questions and applaud answers they already know and agree with.

The Bush team are trying to make it look like they are reaching out in the wake of the "controlled crowds" story. This little trick will fall flat too.

"I just saw something on 'Hannity & Colmes' about Kerry," said Teece Davenport, a bartender from Joplin. "Some of his shipmates in Vietnam were questioning his integrity. He sounds like a big liar to me."

There's another Hannitized zombie. None of his "shipmates" have questioned his integrity.

[oasis]

4. Cheney is a cold, robotic shell of a human being. That's why he's a

leader in the GOP but relegated to vice president. For balance, compassionate conservativism is reserved for the chief executive position.

[KharmaTrain]

5. When You Go Into The Parallel Universe...

You'll hear the roles flipped. An "associate" ranted all about Edwards to me about "trial lawyer" and how mean spirited he must be to have won all those suits...and how slick he looks (Clinton)...smiles too much (smirk???) and how Chenney is the kindly "grandfather"...the adults are back in charge...the man who really was the hero of 9/11 (no lie, this is what this goon thinks)...is a patriot and so on.

Chenney's danger isn't when he's seen, it's when he isn't. This evil incarnate speaks softly and almost always over the heads of his handpicked audience. This gives him both that grandfatherly and in charge image. The media swallows this full load, too...that's why they've never challenged him on his many lies and flip flops...including lies that he continues to say today. Doesn't he still tell the "faithful" Saddam = 911 = WMD still? And don't dare say the word: Halliburton.